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COPYRIGHT 1913 BY 
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The Cutler-Hammer Mfg. Co. 


MILWAUKEE WISCONSIN 


CHICAGO OFFICE: Peoples Gas Bldg. 
NEW YORK OFFICE: PITTSBURG OFFICE: BOSTON OFFICE: 
50 Church Street. Farmers’ Bank Bldg. Columbian Life Bldg. 


PHILADELPHIA OFFICE: CLEVELAND OFFICE: 
1201 Chestnut Street. Schofield Building. 


PACIFIC COAST AGENTS: 
H. B. SQUIRES CO., 579 Howard Street, SAN FRANCISCO, 
H. B. SQUIRES CO., 229 Sherlock Bldg., PORTLAND, 
W. B. PALMER, 416 East 3rd St., LOS ANGELES. 


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FOREWORD 


Although published as a souvenir of the 1913 Con- 
vention of the National Electrical Light Association, 
and intended primarily for the stranger within the 
gates, this booklet, it is believed, will also prove of 
interest to those members of the electrical fraternity 
who are residents of Chicago. 


The object of this little book is to illustrate some of 
the notable buildings of Chicago, to touch briefly on 
some of the details of their electrical equipment and 
to emphasize incidentally—oh, quite incidentally !—the 
fact that in Chicago wherever there are motors to be 
started or stopped, slowed down cr speeded up, 
you will find Cutler-Hammer controllers. 


They are to be found in public buildings, office 
buildings and private residences. They are to be 
found in hotels, restaurants and theaters. They are 
to be found in department stores, printing plants and 
railroad depots. They are to be found in central 
stations, isolated plants and in every manufacturing 
industry where the electric drive is used. In short, 
as the Cutler-Hammer Near-Harmony Quartet sings 
at the annual dinner: 


Wherever motor hums or generator 

Grinds out the juice, yowll find it there; 
Field rheostat, starter or regulator, 

C-H CONTROL is everywhere. 


And it is. This booklet will convey some idea of the 
extensive use of Cutler-Hammer control in Chicago, 
and what is true of Chicago is true of practically every 
other important city in the country. In your own 
city—wherever you may live—you will find Cutler- 
Hammer controllers used in a majority of the electric 
power installations, and in Medinah Temple, where 
the delegates to the National Electric Light Association 
are foregathering as these pages go to press you will 
find, with one or two exceptions, nothing but Cutler- 
Hammer control. 


Medinah Temple, at Cass and Ohio Sts., within ten or 
fifteen minutes walk from the heart of the city, is the 
home of the Shriners in Chicago. The auditorium of 
the Temple—the largest in the city—has a seating capa- 
city of 5000, with an additional capacity of 1000 when 
seats are placed on the stage. The proscenic opening 
has a width of 70 feet, this opening being closed by a 
fire curtain nine inches thick and weighing, with its 
counterweights, over 40,000 pounds. This fire cur- 
tain is hydraulically operated, the water pressure being 


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The thousands of lights on the stage and in the auditorium are 
dimmed or brightened at will by one man who controls all the 
lighting circuits from this switchboard. 


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secured by motor driven pumps under the control of 
Cutler-Hammer starters. 

There is a system of fans in the Medinah Temple 
designed especially with a view to keeping the audi- 
torium clear of smoke when smokers are held here. 
These fans are controlled by manually operated Cutler- 
Hammer starters of the Bulletin 3150 type and will 
clear the auditorium of smoke in a few minutes. The 
motors driving the main ventilating fans are also 
Cutler-Hammer controlled. 

Numerous other Cutler-Hammer controllers are 
used in connection with the electrically operated 
machinery installed in Medinah Temple. The dim- 
mers—one of the largest banks in Chicago— are of the 
Cutler-Hammer new “Simplicity” type, designed 
especially for use with tungsten lamps. The impressive 
ritual of the Shriners calls for striking lighting effects 
and these are obtained by the dimmers installed. 


Lectures are given every Sunday in the auditorium 
of the Temple, these being illustrated by a stereopticon. 
The lecturer, himself, controls all the lights in the 
auditorium by a remote control Cutler-Hammer 
magnetic switch of the Bulletin 6405 type, energized 
by a Cutler-Hammer pendent switch which he carries 
at the end of the cord in his pocket. 


THE OLD MEDINAH TEMPLE 
Fifth Ave. and Jackson Blvd. 


PEOPLES GAS BUILDING 
MICHIGAN BOULEVARD and ADAMS ST. 


The Chicago Offices of The Cutler-Hammer Mfg. Co., of Milwaukee, 
are located in the thirteenth floor of this building. 


“CUTLER-HAMMER CONTROL 
IN CHICAGO 


PEOPLES GAS BUILDING 


On the thirteenth floor of the building illustrated on 
opposite page the Chicago Offices of The Cutler-Ham- 
mer Mfg. Co. are located. The engineers connected 
with this office were trained in the Cutler-Hammer 
factory and have at their command the vast amount 
of valuable data concerning problems involving the 
control of electric motors, which has been accumulated 
during the many years The Cutler-Hammer Mfg. Co. 
has been engaged in this line of work. A cordial 
invitation to avail themselves of this information is 
extended to all interested in the control of electrical 
apparatus. 


The Peoples Gas Building is located on the corner of 
Michigan Boulevard and Adams St. directly opposite 
the Art Institute. It is 22 stories high, or 260 feet. 
The granite columns on the ground floor are mono- 
lithic and weigh about 30,000 pounds apiece. The total 
cost of the building was $8,000,000. All of the con- 
trollers used in this magnificent structure, with the single 
exception of the elevator equipment, are of Cutler- 
Hammer design and manufacture. In all there are 


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SUB-BASEMENT OF PEOPLES GAS BUILDING 
Cutler-Hammer controllers on the left and on the back wall. 


PNEUMATIC TUBE SYSTEM INSTALLED 
IN THE PEOPLES GAS BUILDING 


The lower illustration shows the Cutler-Hammer controller which 
automatically regulates the vacuum according to the number of 
tubes in use. 


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IN CHICAGO 


some 126 motors installed in this building, ranging 
in size from one-eighth to 100 H. P. 


In the sub-basement machine room are located most 
of the pumps used in the building. Here will be found 
two brine pumps, two drinking water pumps, three 
house pumps, one fresh air fan, one air washer, two gas 
boosters, and an ice machine. All of these are driven 
by motors handled by Cutler-Hammer controllers. 
The controllers for the house pumps are of the self- 
starter type, the two smaller ones being controlled by 
a special duplex self-starter panel and the other by a 
self-starter of the Bulletin 6160 type. 


The gas boosters are controlled by self-starters which 
are automatically started and stopped by variations 
in the gas pressure, the starting and stopping of these 
boosters being immediately controlled by a mercury 
“U” tube connected to the gas mains. 


The pneumatic tube system installed in this building 
facilitates the transmission of reports, correspondence, 
etc. between the various departments of the Peoples 
Gas Co. This installation consists of two motor driven 
vacuum pumps, each of 15 H. P. capacity, these being 
controlled by special Cutler-Hammer automatic speed 
regulators which are designed to vary the speed of the 
motor according to the number of carriers which are 
being transmitted through the tubes at any given 
moment. The motors are controlled through the 
medium of vacuum dash-pots which regulate the speed 
of the motor to maintain the vacuum practically 
constant irrespective of the number of tubes in use. 
The two cylinders shown in lower illustration on 
page 10 are piped to the vacuum system, the piston 
in the cylinders traveling up or down as vacuum con- 
ditions vary and in so doing carrying with them the 
master levers that regulate the speed of the motors 
driving the vacuum pumps. 


The upper illustration on page 10 shows the transfer 
station of the pnuematic tube system. To this room 
are brought the terminals of the fifty tubes, every 
carrier in the system being dispatched to this room 
and there transferred to the tube connecting with the 
department to which it is addressed. The transfer station 
attendant handles an average of 5000 carriers per day. 


A 100 H. P. Cutler-Hammer fire pump starter of the 
Bulletin 6311 type is installed in the basement of the 
Peoples Gas Building. This is designed to maintain 
a constant pressure on the sprinkler system and fire 
hose outlets at all hours of the day or night. 


CONTINENTAL AND COMMERCIAL 
NATIONAL BANK BLDG. 


This magnificent building now being erected at Adams and La 
Salle streets covers an entire city block and will be the largest bank 
building in the world. Cutler-Hammer controllers have been 
specified for the entire building. 


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CUTLER-HAMMER CONTROL 


IN CHICAGO 


OFFICE BUILDINGS 


The principal applications of Cutler-Hammer control 
in office buildings in Chicago are in connection with 
motors operating ventilating fans, controlled by speed 
regulators of the Bulletin 3250 type; house pumps, con- 
trolled usually by self-starters of the types known as 
Bulletins 6140, 6141 and 6161; drinking water pumps, 
brine pumps and refrigerating machinery, controlled 
either by hand starters of the Bulletin 2150 type or by 
speed regulators of the types listed in Cutler-Hammer 
Bulletins 3150 and 3250. In the majority of these 
buildings will also be found pneumatic sewage 
ejectors, motors for which are controlled by various 
kinds of Cutler-Hammer self-starters used in connec- 
tion with Bulletin 6750 or Bulletin 6760 pressure 
gauges. This type of ejector disposes of the waste 
water by air pressure instead of pumping it out of the 
building. 

In office buildings having their own power plants 
will usually be found Cutler-Hammer field rheostats 
on the generators, and either starters or speed regulators 
on the stokers. The tendency in recent years has been 
to automatically maintain a constant boiler pressure 
by a forced draft through the fire box. This is secured 
by means of motor driven draft fans the operation of 


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BELL TELEPHONE BUILDING 


This building—212 West Washington St.—is the main exchange of 
the Chicago Telephone Company. The 35 H. P., 220-volt motor 
operating the house pump is controlled by a Cutler-Hammer self- 
starter of the Bulletin 6300 type,and a number of other Cutler- 
Hammer controllers are used in connection with the ventilating 
fan motors. 


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IN CHICAGO 


which is governed by automatic pressure controlled 
speed regulators of the Bulletin 3310 type, this device 
tending to increase or decrease the speed of the motor 
depending upon variations in the boiler pressure. 
The Insurance Exchange Building (Jackson Boule- 
vard and Fifth Ave.) is typical of the larger office 
buildings. With the exception of the elevators, all 
motors are Cutler-Hammer controlled. The speed 
regulators in this building are a modification of the 
standard Bulletin 3250 type, circuit breakers being 
substituted for the usual knife-switch and fuses. The 
motors driving the house pumps, are provided with 
Bulletin 6161 self-starters similarly modified by the 
addition of circuit breakers. Other machines, such as 
air washers, etc., are controlled by special starting 
panels of the Bulletin 2150 type, plus circuit breakers. 


What will be the largest bank building in the world 
when completed is now being erected by the Con- 
tinental & Commercial National Bank. This hand- 
some structure is located at the corner of Adams and 
La Salle Sts. and covers an entire city block. Through- 
out the building Cutler-Hammer controllers will be 


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MONROE BUILDING 


INSURANCE EXCHANGE 
BUILDING 


TRANSPORTATION BUILDING 
HARRISON and DEARBORN STREETS 


The Editorial Offices of the Electrical Review are in this building. 
_The elevators are equipped with Cutler-Hammer high speed pas- 
senger elevator controllers. 


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used. The apparatus specified includes controllers 
for the ventilating fans, drinking water pumps, house 
pumps, sewage ejectors, air washers and brine pumps, 
eighteen of these varying from 3 H. P.to65 H.P. The 
size of this building is well illustrated by the fact. that 
three 20 H. P. motors will be used to replace the water 
drawn from the house tanks. These three motors are 
controlled by a special triplex self-starter panel which 
is so arranged that by one operation of the master 
switch it is possible to start any one of the three motors 
and afterwards to start either of the other two, an 
arrangement designed to equalize wear and tear on 
the several units comprising the installation. 


The Steger Building (Jackson Boulevard and 
Wabash Ave.) is equipped throughout with Cutler- 
Hammer control. An interesting feature of this in- 
stallation is the use of special elevator controllers on 
the high-speed direct traction elevators. There are 
three of these equipments in this building, as well as 
three standard Cutler-Hammer Bulletin 7110 elevator 
controllers and one Bulletin 7240 sidewalk lift. 


HIGH SPEED PASSENGER ELEVATOR EQUIPMENT 
Installed in the Barnhetsel Building; Michigan Blvd. between 
Harrison St. and Hubbard Place. The controllers—Schureman 
Type M—are described in Cutler-Hammer Bulletin 7560. 


Wabash Ave. and 
Jackson Boulevard. 


Special type of Cutler-Hammer elevator controller installed in the 
Steger Building. 


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IN CHICAGO 


In the Karpen Building (Michigan Boulevard and 
Taylor St.) there is a Cutler-Hammer vacuum sweeper 
controller designed to vary the speed of the motor so 
as to produce the proper vacuum for sweeping regard- 
less of whether only one or a dozen sweepers are in 
operation. 


In the Transportation Building (Dearborn and 
Harrison Sts.) will be found speed regulators and self- 
starters of the usual office building types; also an 
interesting installation of fourteen elevators operated 
by Cutler-Hammer controllers. In this building is 
also housed a large wireless station in which the motor 
generator set is under the control of Cutler-Hammer 
starters and field regulators. The editorial offices of 
the Electrical Review are located in this building. 


In some of the newer office buildings, such as the 
Hill Building and the Barnheisel Building will be 
found interesting installations of Cutler-Hammer high 
speed passenger elevator controllers. 


In the Boddie Building (5828 Washington Ave.) 
and at the Methodists Old Peoples Home (1415 Foster 
Ave.) may be seen elevators operated by Cutler- 
Hammer push-button controllers. 


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& SAVINGS 
BANK 


MARQUETTE BUILDING 


IN CHICAGO 


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PUBLIC BUILDINGS 


The public buildings of Chicago, with the exception 
of the Field Museum of Natural History in Jackson 
Park, are all located in the business center of the city 
each within easy walking distance of the others. 


ART INSTITUTE 


This handsome building is on Michigan Boulevard 
at the foot of Adams St. and is directly opposite the 
Peoples Gas Building in which the Chicago Offices of 
The Cutler-Hammer Mfg. Co. are located. 


It contains a most valuable and interesting collection 
of paintings and sculpture and in addition to the per- 
manent exhibits is frequently used for temporary 
exhibitions of various kinds which are attended by 
half a million people a year. 


Admission to the Art Institute is free on Wednesdays, 
Saturdays, Sundays and holidays. On other days an 
admission fee of 25 cents is charged. The hours during 
which the building is open to the public are 9 A. M. 
to 5 P. M. on week days and 1 to 5 P. M. on Sundays. 


There are installed in the Art Institute a total of 
thirty motors, used for various purposes, all of which 
are equipped with Cutler-Hammer controllers. There 
are 18 motors on the ventilating system, ranging from 
one to 14 H. P., on which speed regulators of the 
Bulletin 3110 type are used. The freight ‘elevator 
controller is driven by a 5 H. P. motor equipped with 
a Cutler-Hammer, Schureman type, elevator controller 
and the air compressor installed here is also under 
Cutler-Hammer control. 


PUBLIC LIBRARY 


The Public Library, Michigan Boulevard and 
Washington St.,is three blocks north of the Art In- 
stitute. Here will be found a most complete collec- 
tion of books of reference, scientific and historial works, 
poetry, fiction, ete. 


Visitors to Chicago who yearn for news from home 
will find on file in the Public Library reading room 
newspapers from every important city in the United 
States. 


On the second floor of the building is a museum of 
war relics and battle flags, together with a life size 


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POST OFFICE 


portrait of Abraham 
Lincoln and portraits 
of other leaders of 
the Civil War. 


The Library is 
open to the public 
from 9 A. M. to 10 
P. M. on week days 
and from 9 A. M. 
to 6 P. M. on Sun- 
days. 


The Library has 
its own power plant, 
which consists of 
four 200 H.P., cross- 
head type steam 
engines driving 60 
K. WW. generators 
these being of the 
3-wire type. There 
are installed in this 
building, fourteen 
ventilating fans driven by motors ranging from one to 15 H. P. these 
being controlled by Cutler-Hammer, Bulletin 3110, speed regulators. 


On the pneumatic tube system, there is installed a Cutler-Ham- 
mer, manually operated, starting rheostat of the Bulletin 2110 
type this being used in connection with a 5 H. P., 220 volt motor. 
The ash conveyor is also driven by a 5 H. P. motor equipped with 
a similar type of control. 


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IN CHICAGO 1 


FIELD MUSEUM 


The Field Museum of Natural History is in Jackson 
Park and is most conveniently reached after a visit 
to the Public Library by taking an Illinois Central 
suburban train from the depot which is almost directly 
oppose the Library. It may also be reached by the 
South Side Elevated railroad or Cottage Grove Avenue 
surface car. 


The Field Museum building is a relic of the Colum- 
bian Exposition held in Jackson Park in 1893, having 
been the Fine Arts Building of the exposition. It is 
located near the north end of the Park and the exhibits 
are arranged in four distinct groups—Anthropology, 
Botany, Geology and Zoology. 


A fee of twenty-five cents is charged for admission 
to the museum except on Saturdays and Sundays 
when admission is free. The building is open to the 
public from 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. 


The extremely valuable collections of the Field 
Museum of Natural History are protected against 
damage by fire by an alternating current fire pump 
equipment controlled by a Cutler-Hammer fire pump 
starter of the Bulletin 9665 type. 


POST OFFICE 


The Post Office is another very interesting example 
of the universal use of Cutler-Hammer control. ‘The 
postal clerks in this building handle every day from 600 
to 700 tons of mail matter and about 125 tons of parcel 
post. This matter from the time it enters the building 
until it leaves is handled by overhead conveyors driven 
by motors controlled by various types of Cutler- 
Hammer apparatus. The cancelling machines, as well 
as the various other labor-saving machines used in the 
postal service are also under Cutler-Hammer control. 
Aside from the control of mail handling machinery 
Cutler-Hammer apparatus is used in this building in 
connection with the motors operating ventilating fans 
and the various types of pumps with which the Post 
Office is equipped. 


In the same building the sessions of the Federal 
Courts are held, and here also are to be found the 
offices of the various departments of the National 
Government, such as the Treasury Department, 
Custom House, Internal Revenue, Bureau of the 
Census, etc. 


ELEVATOR MACHINE 
Board of Trade Bldg. 


BOARD OF TRADE 
BUILDING 


Jackson Boulevard 
and La Salle St. 


Cutler-Hammer—Schureman Type—elevator controllers 
of special design. 


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CITY HALL 


In the City Hall and County Building will be found 
two 150 H. P. motor-driven fire pumps, controlled by 
combined manual and automatic starters of the Cutler- 
Hammer Bulletin 6311 type. These equipments are 
designed to maintain a constant water pressure of 100 
pounds per square inch on the sprinkler system and 
fire hose outlets. There will also be found in this 
building six house pumps, four of which are driven by 
40 H. P. motors and two by 25 H. P. motors, all of 
these being under the control of Cutler-Hammer self- 
starters of the Bulletin 6161 type. Other apparatus 
includes a self-starter used in connection with a 10 
H. P. motor driven air compressor, and a coal con- 
veyor, also driven by a 10 H. P. motor, this being under 
the control of a Cutler-Hammer Bulletin 2150 manually 
operated motor starter. 


BOARD OF TRADE 


Although strictly speaking the Board of Trade is 
not a public building it is mentioned here because it is 
one of the show places of the city and has a large 
gallery to which visitors are freely admitted and from 
which a good view of the animated scene on the trading 
floor may be obtained. The hours when visitors are 
admitted to the gallery are from 9.30 A. M. to 1.15 
P. M. except on Saturdays, when trading is suspended 
at noon. 


An interesting installation in this building consists 
of five electric elevators of unusual design, inasmuch 
as the motors, instead of being installed at the top or 
bottom of the hatchway, are made to serve as counter- 
weights to the car and travel up and down the hatch 
by means of pinions which engage racks placed on 
either side of the guide posts. The cut on page 24 
illustrates the mechanism described as well as the 
special Cutler-Hammer, Schureman type, controllers 
used in connection with this installation. 


In the Board of Trade Building will also be found a 
centrifugal booster pump driven by a one and one-half 
horsepower motor, and a hot well pump driven by a 
3 H. P. motor. The booster pump motor is controlled 
by a Cutler-Hammer manually-operated starting 
rheostat of the Bulletin 2110 type and the hot well 
pump by a Bulletin 6140 self-starter operated by a 
float switch. 


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EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS 


Chicago boasts of many fine schools and colleges, the 
fame of which attract students from all parts of the 
country. Foremost among these is the University of 
Chicago, easily reached by taking a Cottage Grove Ave. 
car to 59th St., and walking four blocks east. The 
campus fronts on the Midway Plaisance, the connecting 
link between Washington and Jackson Parks, and while 
in this neighborhood the latter should be visited, as it 
contains the Field Museum of National History and 
a number of other buildings that formed part of the 
great Columbian Exposition held here in 1893. Here 
also, at anchor in one of the lakes, are exact repro- 
ductions of the three tiny caravels:in which Columbus 
and his men made their memorable voyage of discovery. 


Among the many installations of Cutler-Hammer 
control in educational institutions is a complete equip- 
ment in the Lane Technical High School of Chicago. 
In this building the ventilating fan motors are con- 
trolled by Cutler-Hammer speed regulators, the pump 
motors by Cutler-Hammer self-starters and the same 
types of apparatus are installed in connection with the 
various machines used throughout the building for 
the instruction of students. Among these machines 
are the woodworking lathes, which are equipped 
entirely with Cutler-Hammer Bulletin 2230 variable 
speed regulators. The Lane Technical High School 
maintains its own power plant. For the control of the 
generator fields Cutler-Hammer field regulators are used. 


A recent addition to the educational institutions of 
Chicago is the Hyde Park High School. This build- 
ing is equipped with alternating current, motor driven 
ventilating fans, which are controlled by secondary 
drum type speed regulators, of the Cutler-Hammer 
Bulletin 9365 type. 


The Armour Institute of Technology (Armour Ave. 
and 33rd St.) and the Lewis Institute, (1955 West 
Madison St.) both of which are well known for their 
electrical courses, use Cutler-Hammer control in con- 
nection with the various motors installed in their build- 
ings and employ the same class of apparatus for the 
instruction of their students. 


Notable among the educational institutions of the 
country are the University of Chicago (Midway 
Plaisance, Jackson Park) and the Northwestern Uni- 
versity, (at Evanston) where Cutler-Hammer con- 
trollers of various types will be also found in the class 
rooms as well as in the basement. 


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HOTELS 


The fine hotels of Chicago—and they are among the 
finest in the world—contain many interesting instal- 
lations of Cutler-Hammer apparatus. A brief enu- 
meration of the principal types of control used may 
be of interest. 

For the motors driving the ventilating fans Cutler- 
Hammer manually operated speed regulators (Bulletin 
3150 or 3250) are usually specified. The house pumps 
are generally controlled by self-starters of the types 
listed in Bulletins 6105, 6140, 6141, 6160 and 6161. 


Such machines as the drinking water pumps and 
brine pumps, used for cooling the drinking water, are 
controlled either by speed regulators of the Bulletin 
3110 or 3150 type, or by motor starters such as are 
listed in Bulletin 2110 and 2150. Similar types of con- 
trol are used in connection with the cold storage and 
refrigerating machinery. 

Practically every modern hotel in Chicago maintains 
its own laundry, usually located in the top floor of the 
building, and here nothing but Cutler-Hammer con- 
trollers will be found. 

In the boiler room the automatic stokers which lighten 
the labor of the firemen are motor driven, and here 
once again is encountered—Cutler-Hammer! control. 


The Hotel La Salle, (corner Madison and La Salle 
Sts.) maintains its own electrical plant, the current 
being supplied by three generators of 250 K. W.—350 
K. W. and 500 K. W. capacity. More than one 
hundred motors are installed in this hotel. Eighteen 
motors, ranging in size from 1 H. P. to 28 H. P. are used 
in connection with the ventilating system. 

Twenty-three motors are installed in the laundry, 
these ranging from one-quarter to 15 H. P. One 10 
H. P. motor operates the coal conveyor and five motors 
of 3 H. P. each are used in connection with the auto- 
matic stokers. Twenty motors of one-half to 3 H. P. 
are used in the kitchen and pantry in connection with 
the dough mixer, meat and vegetable choppers, potato 
peeler, potato masher, dish washer, buffers for glass 
and silver, ice-cream freezer, cream separator, ice saw, 
elevator and dining room signals, etc. Other motors 
are required for the air compressor, vacuum tube 
systems, the numerous pumps, etc., and in connection 
with all of these various applications of the electric 
drive Cutler-Hammer control is used. 

At the Hotel Sherman (Clark and Randolph Sts.) 
the motor equipment aggregates 660 H. P., of which 
450 H. P. is required for operating the ventilating fans. 


CONGRESS HOTEL 


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IN CHICAGO 


The various other motor applications and the types 
of controllers used are similar to those of the Hotel 
La Salle, the resemblance extending even to the print 
shop where menus and house stationery are printed. 


At the Congress Hotel (Michigan Boulevard and 
Congress St.), and at practically every other first-class 
hotel in the city, Cutler-Hammer controllers are to be 
found; but since the electrical equipment of one hotel 
resembles that of another the description already given 
will serve for all. 


Mention should be made, however, of an interesting 
dumb-waiter installation at the Hyde Park Hotel 
(51st St. and Lake Ave.) where a 3 H. P. motor operat- 
ing the dumb-waiter is controlled by a Cutler-Hammer 
Bulletin 7570, eight-landing, dumb-waiter controller. 


At the famous College Inn, located in the basement 
of the Hotel Sherman; at the equally famous Blue 
Fountain Inn, in the basement of the Hotel La Salle; 
and at the renowned Pompeian Room in the Congress 
Hotel all of the ventilating fan motors are under the 
control of Cutler-Hammer apparatus. 


PALMER HOUSE Monroe and State Sts. 


CLUBS 


The social life of Chicago would 
not be complete without its clubs, 
many of which are housed in magni- 
ficent buildings of their own. 


Three of city’s leading clubs—Chi- 
cago Athletic Club, Illinois Athletic 
Association and the University Club 
are located on Michigan Boulevard 
between Adams and Madison Sts. 
The Chicago Club is also on Michigan 
Boulevard, corner of Van Buren St. 
The Hamilton Club is on Dearborn St. 
between Monroe and Madison, and 
the Union League Club is on Jackson 
Boulevard, corner of Federal St. The 
Engineer’s Club is on Federal St. ad- 
joining the Union League Club. 

Cutler-Hammer control is widely 


used in club houses in Chicago the principal applications being in 
connection with motors driving the ventilating fans and house pumps. 


At the University Club, Chicago Athletic Club and Illinois Athletic 
Association the ventilating fan motors are equipped with Cutler- 
Hammer manually-operated starting rheostats and the house pump 
motors with Cutler-Hammer self-starters. 


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THEATERS 


Chicago is famed for the large number of beautiful 
theaters it possesses, being rivaled in this respect only 
by New York. Of theaters playing high-class attrac- 
tions, vaudeville and variety there are about fifty in 
all, to say nothing of moving picture houses which are 
numbered by hundreds. 


It is interesting to note in this connection that the 
first theater in the world to install incandescent lamps 
was the Academy of Music, on South Halsted St. The 
theater was wired for 150 incandescent lamps, the 
electric illumination being confined to the auditorium, 
since owing to the absence of dimmers in those days it 
was necessary to continue the use of gas for stage 
lighting. 


The first theater to use incandescent lamps for stage 
lighting was the old Haverly Theater, then located on 
Monroe street between Clark and Dearborn where the 
Inter-Ocean building now stands. The generating 
plant consisted of two dynamos which supplied current 
for 637 lamps. The startling brilliancy of the new 
illuminant, to eyes accustomed only to gas light, 
created a great sensation on the opening night and the 
innovation was so successful that similar lighting plants 
were immediately installed by McVicker’s Theater 
(West Madison St.) and the Chicago Opera House (West 
Washington St.) the latter now being razed to make 
way for a new business block—the Conway building. 


In the early days of electric stage lighting it was cus- 
tomary to place as many as 150 lamps on one circuit, 
and the early type of dimmer was correspondingly 
large and heavy. Later on the Cutler-Hammer 
“Simplicity” type dimmer was designed in the form of 
a compact circular plate controlling a maximum of 
fifty 16-candlepower lamps. Any desired number of 
these plates could be conveniently banked in an angle 
iron frame. Each plate controlled one circuit and was 
operated by a small lever. Each group of plates was 
controlled by a master lever and all of the plates were 
arranged to be operated in unison by a grand master. 
The ‘‘Simplicity”’ dimmer swept the country and was 
speedily installed by all the leading theaters. Various 
improvements, all tending toward greater refinement 
of control, have been made from time to time in this 
type of dimmer and quite recently an entirely new 
plate has been placed on the market with a view to 
meeting the demand for a dimmer suitable for use with 


BLACKSTONE 
THEATER 


Wabash Avenue and Hubbard Place. 


ILLINOIS 
THEATER 


Jackson Boulevard between Wabash Avenue and Michigan Boulevard. 


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metallic filament lamps. High efficiency metallic 
filament lamps require a large number of resistance 
steps in order that the dimming may be gradual and 
free from flickering. This condition is successfully 
met in the new type of “Simplicity” dimmer. Two 
large dimmer installations in which this new type of 
plate is used have already been made in Chicago—one 
in the Auditorium (Wabash Ave. and Congress St.) 
and the other in the new Medinah Temple (Cass and 
Ohio Sts.) These banks are illustrated on page 36 
and page 8 of this booklet. 


The Blackstone, one of Chicago’s newest theaters, 
has a representative bank of Cutler-Hammer dimmers. 
This theater has also installed a number of speed regu- 
lators of the Cutler-Hammer Bulletin 3250 type, these 
being used in connection with motors driving the ven- 
tilating fans. This beautifully appointed play-house 
is located at the corner of Wabash Ave. and Hubbard 
Place, just back of the Blackstone Hotel, which fronts 
on Michigan Boulevard. 


The Illinois Theater, one of the oldest in Chicago, 
still uses an early type of Cutler-Hammer “‘iron-clad”’ 
dimmer which, in spite of its many years of service, is 
still in such good condition that the management will not 
consider replacing it with a newer type. This theater 
is on Jackson Boulevard between Wabash Avenue and 
Michigan Boulevard, just back of the Hotel Stratford. 


The Majestic Theater (Monroe St. between Dear- 
born and State) has a fine bank of Cutler-Hammer 
dimmers with wheel drive, this device giving a refine- 
ment of control much superior to that which can be 
obtained by the use of hand levers. The curtain in 
this theater is raised and lowered electrically by push- 
button control. The building in which the Majestic 
Theater is located generates its own power by means 
of 2-wire, 220 volt generators. The lighting circuits 
throughout the building and theater are 110 volts, 
secured by means of a special balancer set installed in 
the generator room. The unbalanced loads are taken 
care of by Cutler-Hammer polarized relays which 
supply the excess current taken on either side of the 
line, thus maintaining a balanced condition on the 
system. 


In the Palace Theater (127 North Clark Street) 
there is a bank of Cutler-Hammer dimmers and a 
number of standard Cutler-Hammer controllers are 
used in connection with the motors operating the 
ventilating fans and house pumps. 


SPOT LIGHT 
DIMMER. 


BANK OF DIMMERS INSTALLED 
IN CHIGAGOS AUDITORIUM 


BEHIND_THE SCENES AT THE AUDITORIUM 


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IN: CHICAGO 


The Alhambra Hippodrome (1920 South State St.) 
in addition to Cutler-Hammer dimmers has a rope 
operated electric curtain hoist, the Cutler-Hammer 
apparatus used in connection with this device being 
similar to a small elevator controller. In this theater 
there are also a number of pumps operated by alter- 
nating current motors and controlled by Cutler- 
Hammer self-starters of the Bulletin 9610 type. 


The Englewood Theater (63rd and Halsted St.) has 
not yet been opened to the public but will have when 
completed an up-to-date dimmer equipment consisting 
of twenty-two double plates of the new “‘Simplicity” 
type, designed for use with tungsten lamps. 


Reference has already been made to the dimmers 
installed in the Auditorium—the home of Grand Opera 
in Chicago. An interesting feature of this bank are 
several auxiliary plates connected to the stage pockets, 
the function of these plates being to vary the resistance 
according to the load on the pockets. This is accom- 
plished by means of a single blade knife-switch with 
four clips. When the load on the stage pockets is 
light only one dimmer plate is used, the other being 
cut into circuit as the load on the pockets increases 
and more resistance is required to secure the dimming 
effect desired. The various plates are cut in and out 
of circuit by merely engaging or disengaging the knife- 
switch above re ferred to with the clips connected to the 
various plates. This simple arrangement fills a long 
felt want of the stage electrician. 


_ A complete list of Chicago theaters in which Cutler- 
Hammer dimmers are used would include all except 
three or four. The following are numbered among 
the wise ones, and even then the list is not complete: 


Academy of Empress Majestic 
Music Folly Marlowe 
Alhambra Fine Arts McVicker’s 

Auditorium Garrick Olympic 

Bijou German Palace 
Blackstone Haymarket Plaza 

Casino Illinois Power's 

College Imperial Princess 
Colonial Indiana Star and Garter 
Criterion La Salle Studebaker 
Crown Little Theater Willard 


Empire Lyric Ziegfeld 


COLONIAL THEATER 
This stately play-house, located on Randolph St. between State and 
Dearborn is known as the ‘‘Theater Beautiful’? on account of its 


impressive facade and the magnificent decorations in the lobby 


and auditorium. 


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DEPARTMENT STORES 


The stranger in Chicago, endeavoring to get his 
bearings by means of the street signs, soon notes that 
the names of the streets are prefixed with the letters 
N.S. E. or W. These abbreviations stand for North, 
South, East and West. South State St., as soon as it 
crosses Madison St., becomes North State St.; and 
East Madison St., as soon as it crosses State St., 
becomes West Madison St. In other words, the prefix 
“N” or “S” is simply an easy way of saying North or 
South of Madison St. and the prefix “E” or “W” means 
merely East or West of State St. State St. which runs 
north. and south is the dividing line for throughfares 
which, like Madison St., run east and west; and 
Madison St. is the dividing line for streets that run 
parallel with State St. 


State St. and Madison St. are the official dividing 
lines, but the older divisions of the city into “North 
Side’, “South Side”, ‘‘West Side” and ‘The Loop” 
still survive in popular usage. Tip a letter T over on 
its side, thus....-....and let this represent the 
Chicago river with its north and south branches. The 


JUNCTION OF STATE AND MADISON STS. 
Where North meets South and East meets West. 


CARSON, PIRIE, SCOTT 
State and Madison Sts. 


BOSTON STORE 
State and Madison Sts. 


MANDEL BROS. 
State and Madison Sts. 


West Side includes all that por- 
tion of the city that lies west 
of the two branches of the river; 
the North Side comprises that 
part of the city lying north of 
the river and east of the north 
branch, while the South Side 
embraces the territory situated 
south of the river and east of 
the south branch. ““The Loop”, 
strictly speaking, comprises the 
comparatively small but im- 
mensely valuable portion of the 
city enclosed within the loop 
formed by the elevated railway 
in the heart of the business 
section, but custom has ex- . 
tended these bounds so that 
when a resident of Chicago 
speaks of the Loop District he 
means the territory lying south 
of the Chicago River and north 
of Twelfth St. between the 


State and 
Van Buren Sts. 


ROTHSCHILD 


THE HUB. 


State Street and 
Jackson Boulevard. 


MARSHALL FIELD 
State and Washington Sts. 


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IN CHICAGO 


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lake, on the east, and the south branch of the river 
on the west. 


The Loop District is the heart of Chicago and State 
St. is the heart of the Loop. On this throughfare, 
within the space of a few blocks will be found nearly 
all of the city’s great department stores, while crowded 
in between the larger stores, or overflowing into the 
adjacent cross streets, are scores of interesting shops 
in whose windows are displayed every conceivable 
article likely to tempt the purse of the passer-by. 


At the junction of State and Madison Sts. three of 
the four corners are occupied by huge department 
stores—Carson Pirie Scott, Mandel Bros. and the 
Boston Store. Walking south one comes within a few 
minutes to The Fair, Rothschild’s and Siegel Cooper’s, 
each occupying an entire city block, while two minutes 
walk in the opposite direction brings one to the famous 
Marshall Field store which covers two entire blocks. 
Other stores of equal interest, though not as large as 
those mentioned, will be found on State St. within a 
few blocks north or south of Madison St. 


In this paradise of the shopper will also be found— 
not displayed in the windows or show cases but attend- 
ing strictly to business in the basement or sub-basement 
*—a multitude of Cutler-Hammer controllers, prin- 
cipally Bulletin 3250 speed regulators, used in connec- 
tion with ventilating fans, and Bulletin 6140 and 6160 
self-starters controlling the house pumps. 


In practically all of the large department stores 
will also be found carrier systems of the pnuematic 
tube type, governed by automatic controllers which 
vary the speed of the motor according to the number 
of carriers passing through the tubes at any given time. 
These controllers are similar to the one already de- 
scribed in connection with the Peoples Gas Building 
and illustrated on page 10 of this booklet. 


The great men’s furnishing store known as “The 
Hub” is equipped throughout (with the exception of 
the elevator motors) with Cutler-Hammer control, the 
ventilating fan motors being controlled by Bulletin 
2245 compound speed regulators and the motors 
driving the house pumps by Bulletin 6141 self-starters. 
Various other machines, such as small drinking water 
pumps, refrigerating pumps, etc. are driven by motors 
controlled by Cutler-Hammer Bulletin 2110 motor 
starters. In the basement of this building there is a 


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large and very complete generating plant, Cutler- 
Hammer field regulators being used in connection with 
the generator fields. 


In the Hillman department store (State and Wash- 
ington Sts.) there is an interesting installation of 
Cutler-Hammer self-starters used in connection with 
the pumps supplying water to the hydraulic elevators. 
The self-starters are energized by pressure gauges 
which are so adjusted that on light demand only one 
pump will operate while, when occasion requires, two 
or three pumps will be cut into service, the starting 
and stopping of the pumps depending upon the pres- 
sure in the storage tanks. 


At Stevens & Co. (opposite Hillman’s); at the Siegel 
Cooper store (Congress and State Sts.); and at The 
Fair (Adams and State) other applications of Cutler- 
Hammer control will be found. The escalators, or 
moving stairways, at Siegel Cooper’s are controlled 
by Bulletin 2150 motor starters and are equipped with 
safety brakes of Cutler-Hammer design. 


CUTLER-HAMMER FIRE PUMP 
STARTER INSTALLED AT “THE FAIR” 


Patience and preparedness are the first requisites of a fire pump 
starter. It may be idle for years and then be called on to act at a 
moment’s notice. The apparatus illustrated is the well known 
Cutler-Hammer Bulletin 6311 starter which ws arranged for both 
automatic and manual operation. 


FY 2agnLinT pun anuary obvo1y) ‘(00 ® CUVM AYAWODLNOW 
SHSQ0H €A1duO TIVW LVAYD-S. OPVOIHO AO ZNO 


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MAIL ORDER HOUSES 


Chicago is the home of the mail order house, a busi- 
ness which in comparatively few years has grown from 
small beginnings to gigantic proportions, the annual 
sales of a single one of these establishments running 
from fifty to eighty-five million dollars. 


Montgomery Ward & Co. and Sears Roebuck & Co. 
are the acknowledged leaders of the mail order business 
and in both of these vast establishments Cutler- 
Hammer control is used, practically to the exclusion of 
all other types of controllers. 


Visitors are welcomed at both establishments and 
will find so much of interest in connection with the 
expeditious handling of the vast number of mail orders, 
that the short trip necessary to reach either place is well 
worth taking. 


The Montgomery Ward plant is north of the river at 
Chicago Avenue and Larrabee St. and is easily reached 
by the Larrabee Street surface cars from the Clark and 
Washington St. corner of the City Hall. The Sears 
Roebuck establishment is west of the river, at Homan 
Avenue and Harvard St. near Douglas Park, and is 
reached by taking a Twelfth Street car at the Adams 
and Dearborn St. corner of the Post Office. 


The Sears Roebuck plant is practically a city in 
itself. It maintains its own paid fire department, 
police, hospital, restaurants, etc. The power plant 
here is one of the most complete private plants in 
existence. 


Some idea of the business transacted is indicated by 
the fact that it requires 500 girls to type out the orders 
received, that the mailing list contains nearly five 
million names and that postage stamps are purchased 
in $100,000 lots. 

The great general catalogs, and numerous special 
catalogs, issued by the great mail order houses neces- 
sitate the maintenance of complete printing plants, and 
at both the Montgomery Ward and Sears Roebuck 
establishments Cutler-Hammer control is used on the 
presses, trimmers, folders, binders and belt conveyors, 
which deliver the completed catalog to the mailing 
room. 


Some idea of the efficiency of the printing plant may 
be obtained from records kept by Sears Roebuck which 
show that catalogs have been printed, bound and 
delivered to the mailing room at the rate of one com- 
plete catalog per second. 


SHEARS ROEBUCK & CO. 
Homan Ave. and Harvard St. near Douglas Park. 


A FEW OF THE CUTLER-HAMMER 
CONTROLLERS IN THE SEARS ROEBUCK PLANT 


This battery of twelve Kohler System—Type NRF—controllers are 
used in connection with the single deck web magazine presses that 
print the great Sears Roebuck mail order catalog. 


CUTLER-HAMMER CONTROL | 
IN CHICAGO 


Motor drive is used throughout the Sears Roebuck 
plant wherever possible and aside from the large 
number used in the printing department there are over 
450 additional motors all equipped with Cutler- 
Hammer control. Even this does not take into account 
motors of less than one horsepower, hundreds of which 
are used in connection with small labor saving devices 
throughout the plant. 

A recent addition to the Sears Roebuck business is a 
complete wall paper factory in which are installed 
some fifty machines with individual motor drive. The 
controls used with these machines are Cutler-Hammer 
Universal Compound Starting Panels slightly modified 
from the standard Bulletin 2245 construction. 


Another interesting application of Cutler-Hammer 
apparatus at the Sears Roebuck plant are two valve 
controllers of the remote control type, these being used 
to open and close valves in the water system. Motors 
of two horsepower capacity are installed in connection 
with the controllers about half a mile from the power 
house. Valves are opened and closed from the power 
house by merely opening or closing the circuit to the 
solenoid of the valve controller. 


PRINTING PRESS CONTROLLERS 


More Kohler System Type NRF controllers installed in the Sears 
Roebuck plant in connection with single deck web magazine presses. 


KOHLER SYSTEM 
CONTROLLER 


TRIBUNE 
BUILDING 


Madison and 
Dearborn Sts. 


PUSH 
BUTTON 
STATION 


HEARST BUILDING, Madison and Market Sts. 
The Kohler System type of Cutler-Hammer controller, illustrated in 
upper right hand corner, is used, with few exceptions, by all the 
large newspapers of the country. 


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NEWSPAPERS 


Chicago is proud of its newspapers and its news- 
paper men, among whom have been numbered Eugene 
Field, author of “Little Boy Blue” and other well- 
known poems; George Ade, author of “Fables in Slang”’ 
and Peter F. Dunne, the creator of the inimitable 
“Mr. Dooley”. 


The Cutler-Hammer Mfg. Co. is proud of its con- 
trollers for newspaper presses. This line of controllers, 
comprising the well-known Kohler System of Push- 
Button Control has been installed, with few exceptions, 
by every important newspaper in the United States 
and Canada as well as by such representative foreign 
papers as the London Times, the Paris Matin, Cal- 
cutta Statesman, Melbourne Argus, La Prensa of 
Buenos Aires, and others. 


In the Kohler System of electrical control every 
movement of the largest press, or other motor driven 
machine, is dominated by a little push-button. The 
machinery is set in motion, brought to any desired 


ILL 


ET 


THE INTER-OCEAN BUILDING 


Monroe St. between Clark and Dearborn. This site was 
formerly occupied by Haverly’s Theater; the first theater to use 
electricity for stage lighting. 


HOME OF THE CHICAGO DAILY NEWS 

Fifth Ave. between Madison and Washington Sts. 
The lower illustration shows the Stone Magazine Beds installed 
in basement under press room. 


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IN CHICAGO 


speed—fast or slow—stopped and started again, all 
by means as simple as those employed to signal a 
passenger elevator or to summon an office boy. 


The controller proper is entirely automatic in its 
action. The push-buttons merely convey the signal 
to the controller, which executes the command. Pres- 
sure on one button signals “start”, and the controller 
sets the press in motion. Pressure on another button 
says “stop”, and the machinery which a few seconds 
before was operating at full speed comes quickly and 
quietly to rest. 


By means of The Kohler System the time required 
to bring the press, or other machine, from rest to full 
speed can be adjusted to suit the operator. The usual 
time is twenty seconds. While running at full speed, 
or any intermediate speed, the machine can be almost 
instantly stopped, the actual time required being merely 
the few seconds necessary to prevent stripping of gears. 


Starting, stopping and changes of speed are all 
accomplished without the slightest jerk or jar, reduc- 
ing wear and tear to a minimum. ‘The gradual start 
and graduated increases of speed prevent sudden rushes 
of current, economizing power and insuring the motor 
against damage due to careless operation. 


When dressing the press for a run the cylinders may 
be slowly revolved, brought to any desired position 
and stopped instantly. A movement of as little as 
one-eighth of an inch can be made. A threading speed 
of approximately ten revolutions per minute of the 
plate cylinders can be obtained, facilitating the passing 
of the web from point to point. While operating at 
full speed should the web break, or some other accident 
occur, any of the pressmen can instantly stop the press 
by pushing the “stop” button at the nearest control 
station. 


The first Kohler System controller was installed in 
the plant of the Chicago Daily News. In this same 
plant there is an interesting installation of Stone 
Magazine Reels (another Cutler-Hammer product) 
which enable fresh rolls of paper to be fed to the press 
without stopping the run. 


The press rooms of the Chicago Tribune and Chicago 
Evening Post are also equipped with Kohler System 
controllers, and in the Hearst Building—the home of 
the Chicago Examiner—there are a number of electric- 
ally heated matrix drying, tables of Cutler-Hammer 
manufacture. 


PLANT OF R. R. DONNELLEY & SONS CO.—PRINTERS 


Located at 731 Plymouth Court. This concern prints many of 
the leading electrical jobbers catalogs. 


THE RAND-McNALLY BUILDING Clark and Harrison Sts. 


Printers, Publishers and Map Makers. Cutler-Hammer control 
ts used exclusively tn the mechanical plant of this great publish- 
ing house. 


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COMMERCIAL PRINTERS 


‘Printers’ Row’ is the name by which the three 
streets that enter Polk St. in front of the Dearborn 
Station are known. These are Dearborn St. and the 
two narrow streets that flank it on either side—Federal 
St. and Plymouth Court. From Polk St., in front of 
the Dearborn Station, to Van Buren St., two blocks 
north, these three streets are lined on both sides with 
commercial printing and publishing plants and with the 
warehouses and stores of manufacturers and dealers 
in printers supplies. 

Tt is in Printers’ Row that Cutler-Hammer control 
dominates the field completely, for there is no industry 
that is so entirely of one mind regarding electric con- 
trollers as the disciples of Gutenberg. 


For years Cutler-Hammer controllers have been the 
standard of the printing trade, which is not to be 
wondered at when one considers that in the immense 
plant of Rand-MecNally & Co., there are several Cutler- 
Hammer motor starters, still on the job, that have 
seen more than eighteen years of service. 


In this plant all of the 55 flat bed and web presses 
are equipped with Cutler-Hammer controllers, prin- 
cipally Bulletin 4140 and 4240 controllers of the well- 
known Carpenter type. The platen presses, feeders, 
trimmers, stitchers and other machines—some 300 in 
all—are also Cutler-Hammer controlled. 


DETECTOR BEAD 
LIGHTLY oN t 


E RESTING 
HE Wee ie 


THE OBERT DETECTOR 
An ingenious Cutler-Hammer device that detects imperfections 
in printing paper and automatically stops the press before the 
plates are injured. 


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One of 16 Cutler-Hammer—Carpenter Type—controllers in- 
stalled at plant of Excelsior Printing Co.; 501 Plymouth Court. 
Controller in circle. Resistance—installed under the press— 
in square. 


R. R. Donnelley & Sons Co. (Polk St. and Plymouth 
Court) have 75 Carpenter type controllers on flat bed 
presses. 


Wells & Co. (2501 South Dearborn St.) have 35 
platen presses equipped with Cutler-Hammer Bulletin 
3110 speed regulators and a number of Carpenter type 
controllers on the larger presses. 


Outside of the establishments on Printers Row, it is 
the same old story—wherever one smells printers’ ink 
in any part of Chicago Cutler-Hammer controllers of 
one type or another will be found. 


The Western Bank Note & Engraving Co. (118 East 
20th St.) use Kohler type controllers. The Goes 
Lithographing Co. (175 West Jackson Boulevard) 
prefer Carpenter type. The Kehm, Fietsch & Miller 
Co. (430 West Erie St.) have both kinds. 


The American Colortype Co. (111 West Monroe St.) 
have an equipment consisting of 18 Kohler type and 
32 Carpenter type controllers. R. J. Kittridge & Co. 
(Green and Superior Sts.) have 34 presses equipped 
with Carpenter type controllers. The Western News- 
paper Union (521 West Adams St.) use Carpenter type 
controllers exclusively on 35 presses and nearly a 
hundred Cutler-Hammer motor starters and speed 
regulators on their smaller machines. 


The W. F. Hall Co. (Superior and Kingsbury Sts.) 
pin their faith to Kohler type controllers, and have 


IN CHICAGO 


44 of these installed on the walls of the press room, 
connected to push-button stations mounted on the 
frames of the presses. In this same plant there is an 
interesting piece of Cutler-Hammer apparatus—known 
as the Obert Detector. This is designed for use with 
web presses its function being to automatically stop 
the press should any imperfection be encountered in 
the web. 


Another particularly interesting installation is to be 
found at the plant of the Max Lau Colortype Co., con- 
sisting of a new type of Cutler-Hammer alternating 
current printing press controller. This is the first 
lot of alternating current controllers to be installed in 
a Chicago printing plant, direct current motors being 
used, as a rule, with printing machinery. 

A complete list of Chicago printing plants that use 
Cutler-Hammer controllers would be practically 
equivalent to a directory of the trade. If more names 
are wanted select them at random from the classified 
section of the Chicago Telephone Directory and nine 
out of ten names so selected will be users of Cutler- 
Hammer control. 


Five of the 44 Cutler-Hammer—Kohler Type—controllers 
installed in plant of the W. F. Hall Printing Co.; 466 West 
Superior St, 


“STATION 


RAILROADS 


There are six railroad 
stations in Chicago, all in 
the business center of the 
city. The location of these 
stations are shown on the 
map which will be found 
in the back of this booklet. 


In these stations a ma- 
jority of the controllers in- 
stalled are of Cutler-Ham- 
mer manufacture, the 
principal applications being 
in connection with motor 
driven pumps, ventilating 
fans, and mail conveyors. 

The classes of Cutler-Hammer control used are principally Bulletin 
2110 and 2150 motor starters, Bulletin 3150 and 3250 speed regulators 
and self-starters of the Bulletin 6141 type. 

In connection with the electrically operated cancelling machines 
used in the railway mail service small speed regulators (Bulletin 
8520) are employed. 

Installed along the right-of-way of the Lake Shore & Michigan 
Southern railroad are a number of Cutler-Hammer alternating 
current self-starters of the type listed in Bulletins 9600 and 9610. 


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These self-starters are used in connection with motor 
driven pumps for filling the locomotive water tanks 
and are left without supervision for considerable 
periods. The self-starters used on these installations 
are so arranged that should the fuse in one line blow, or 
one phase become de-energized, in any way, the self- 
starter will not operate to connect the motor across the 
line, thereby eliminating the possibility of the motor 
being burned out through being connected in only one 
phase a three-phase circuit. 


Practically all railroad lift or draw bridges are de- 
signed nowadays for electrical operation, provided 
they are to be erected at points where current is avail- 
able. An interesting installation of this kind may be 
seen just outside of the city limits of Chicago where 
the main line tracks of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad 
are carried across the Calumet river by the largest 
single leaf bridge in the world—a span of 235 feet. 
This bridge is operated by two 140 H. P., 3-phase, 
60-cycle, 440 volt, slip-ring motors which are con- 
trolled by a Cutler-Hammer duplex drum controller 
of special design. 


oe! 


UNION DEPOT Adams and Canal Sts. 


B. & O. RAILROAD BRIDGE OVER CALUMET RIVER 
The longest single leaf bascule bridge in the world. This bridge 
ts operated by two 140 H. P.; 3-phase; 60-cycle; 440-volt; slip-ring 
Plate Conor by a special Cutler-Hammer duplex, drum type 
controller.,, 


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IN CHICAGO 


STREET RAILWAYS 


There are more than nine hundred miles of street 
railway tracks within the city limits of Chicago, owned 
by various companies, of which the largest is the Chicago 
Railways Co. Liberal transfer privileges are accorded 
passengers; so liberal, in fact, that it has been calcu- 
lated that by carefully planning one’s route it is pos- 
sible to ride twenty-five miles, or more, for a single 
five cent fare. 


The visitor to the city should bear in mind that cars 
always stop on the near side of street crossings. By 
remembering this, the annoyance of standing on the 
wrong corner and having the car whizz by without 
stopping will be avoided. 


No one, except a Chicago policeman, knows where 
the different cars go, hence the stranger within the 
gates will do well to seek information only from the 
man in uniform who will be found regulating the street 
traffic at all crowded crossings. 


The tedious delays that formerly occurred when cars 
crossed the river at Washington St. and La Salle St. on 
bridges and were obliged to wait while the bridge was 


TY 


MOTOR DRIVEN LATHES CONTROLLED 
BY CUTLER-HAMMER SELF-STARTERS 


West Side Shop of Chicago Railways Company. 


CAR WHEEL BORING MILL; 7% H. P.; 550 V. 


West Side Shop 
Chicago Railways Company. 


560 V. 


METAL SHOP PLANER 34H. P 


., 660 V. 
de Shop 


12) 


15 H 


WOOD SHOP PLANER 


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West S 
Chicago Railways Company. 


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IN CHICAGO 


raised to let a boat through, have been eliminated by the 
Chicago Railways Co. by tunneling under the river at 
these two points. 


A tunnel seems an unlikely place in which to en- 
counter a Cutler-Hammer controller, but look on page 
63 and you will see an interesting picture of one which 
is installed in the Washington St. tunnel, and there is 
another like it in the La Salle St. tube. These con- 
trollers are automatically operated by float switches 
and their function is to keep the pump motor on the job 
when river water seeps into either tunnel. In the Market 
Street Building of the Chicago Railways Co. (324 South 
Market St.) there is installed a 100 H. P., 600 volt, fire 
pump starter. It will be seen from this that Cutler- 
Hammer control is considered equally efficacious as a 
protection against damage by either fire or water. 


The elevators in the Market Street Building are 
equipped with Cutler-Hammer elevator controllers— 
Schureman type—and in the West Side Shops of the 
Chicago Railways Co. there are approximately 150 
Schureman type self-starters, ranging in size from 2 
H. P. to 35 H. P. Some of these are illustrated on pages 
60 and 61. 


WOOD WORKING SHOP Chicago Railways Company 


CUTLER-HAMMER 50 H. P. SELF-STARTING 
SPEED REGULATOR OF SPECIAL DESIGN 


Installed in Washington St. tunnel of Chicago Railways Co. This 
tunnel carries the car tracks under the Chicago River. The self- 
starter 1s operated by a float switch and controls the motor-driven 
tunnel pump. There is a similar installation in the La Salle St. 
tunnel of the same company.» 


South Side 
Elevated Railway 
Power House 


Cosmopolitan 
Power House 


Quarry St. Station 
Commonwealth 
Edison Co. 


Northwest Station 
Commonwealth Edison Co. 


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CENTRAL STATIONS 


Operating in and around Chicago are the Common- 
wealth Edison Co., the Public Service Company and 
the Cosmopolitan Electric Co. Of these the Common- 
wealth Company supplies the greater amount of 
current, having three immense power plants and 
numerous sub-stations within the city limits. The 
power plants are known as the Fisk Street Station, 
the Quarry Street Station and the Northwest Station, 
the last named being the latest and largest of the 
three. 


In all of these power plants Cutler-Hammer appar- 
atus is used for controlling the motors operating 
ventilating fans and pumps, and scattered throughout 
the various stations will be found a miscellaneous lot 
of Cutler-Hammer starters and controllers used in 
connection with such machines as are accessory to the 
large power units. 


An interesting installation of Cutler-Hammer control 
in the Northwest Station of the Commonwealth Edison 
Co. consists of an electrically operated fire pump which 
is started and stopped automatically by a Cutler- 
Hammer fire pump starter. The pump installed in 
this plant is by far the largest in the city devoted 
exclusively to this class of service. 


On page 67 there is an illustration of the fire pump 
starter above referred to. In the lower right hand 
corner will be noted the double-throw 600-ampere 
switch, connecting the panel to either of two sources 
of supply. At the top is seen the primary overload 
circuit-breaker, flanked by an indicating ammeter and 
voltmeter. The signal lamps indicate when energy is 
available and when the motor is running. The ten 
cam-operated crank switches at the center of the panel 
are closed in succession by the two large alternating- 
current solenoids, acting through racks and pinions. 
These solenoids are in turn controlled by the pressure 
diaphragm in the lower left hand corner. When the 
pressure falls to 135 lbs. an auxiliary circuit is closed, 
energizing the clapper switch at the right, which in 
turn completes the contact to the solenoids. The three 
left hand switches of the crank group are in the primary 
circuit and close quickly through lost-motion links. 
The carbon blocks with which they are fitted take all 
arcing and can easily be renewed. The seven switches 
at the right are secondary contacts cutting out the 
secondary starting resistance one step at a time, mean- 
while keeping all three phases balanced. The two 


FISK STREET STATION OF THE 
COMMONWEALTH EDISON COMPANY 


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TURBINE ROOM IN THE FISK STREET STATION 
The Fisk Street Station of the Commonwealth Edison Co. is on the 
north bank of the South Branch of the Chicago River; near 22nd 


and Halsted Sts. The Quarry Street Station is on the south bank 
of the river opposite the Fisk Street Station. 


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IN CHICAGO 


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secondary running switches are shown at the extreme 
right. If desired, the panel can be operated manually 
by simply lifting the hand lever shown. ‘The lever is 
then held in the running position by means of a latch rod 
extending through the panel. This latch rod is arranged 
with a no-voltage relay, releasing the hand lever auto- 
matically upon failure of the voltage. The panel 
measures 5x5 feet, and the resistor elements are 
mounted behind the two-inch slab of oiled slate. The 
motor with which this starter is used is a 225 Hes 
220 volt, 3-phase, 60-cycle, slip-ring motor and the 
pump has a capacity of 2000 gallons of water per 
minute at a pressure of 150 pounds per square inch. 


There is an equipment similar to that above des- 
cribed in the Fisk Street Station of the Commonwealth 
Edison Co., this installation, however, being designed 
for use with a 225 H. P., 220 volt, direct current motor. 


The elevated railroads of Chicago buy the greater 
part of their power from the Commonwealth Edison Co. 
but at 39th and State Sts. there is a power house which 
supplies a portion of the current used by the South Side 
Elevated Railway Co. In this plant Cutler-Hammer 
control is used in connection with the coal handling 
equipment. 


CUTLER-HAMMER FIRE PUMP STARTER 
Installed in the Northwest Station of the 
Commonwealth Edison Co. 


POWER HOUSE ON THE CHICAGO SANITARY AND 
SHIP CANAL NEAR LOCKPORT, ILLINOIS. 


DAM AND LOCKS AT POWER HOUSE 


In connection with the lock there are installed four valve motors 


controlled by Cutler-Hammer valve controllers as are also the four 
gate motors of the lock. 


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IN CHICAGO 


DRAINAGE CANAL 


Near Lockport, Illinois, about thirty miles from 
Chicago, is a hydro-electric development of much 
interest to engineers. This is the power house and 
dam erected by the Sanitary District of Chicago for 
the purpose of utilizing the water power of the famous 
Drainage Canal, which extends from the south branch 
of the Chicago: river at Robey St. to a point between 
Lockport and Joliet where it empties into the Desplaines 
river, the waters of the canal finally reaching the Gulf 
of Mexico by way of the Illinois river and the Missis- 
sippi. This canal forms an important Jink in the 
proposed Lakes-to-the-Gulf Waterway and in the 
portion of the canal already completed locks and a 
turning basin at Lockport are provided. 


A narrow strip of land on each side of the canal is 
under the jurisdiction of the trustees of the Sanitary 
District of Chicago, corresponding to the zone con- 
trolled by the national government at Panama. The 
power house and dam may be reached by taking an 
Archer Ave. car to the terminus and there transferring 
to the Joliet electric line, or by Chicago & Alton trains 
from the Union Depot. 


The power house is 385 feet long, 70 feet wide and 
47 feet high. The channel retaining walls are 40 feet 
high and bring the water level nearly to the top of the 
building on the receiving side, the turbines being 
served by a fall of about 34 feet. The turbines are 
located in chambers at the floor level and discharge 
through auxiliary chambers to the tail race. 


ANOTHER VIEW OF THE POWER 
HOUSE AND DAM. 


INTERIOR OF POWER HOUSE 


Showing the generators connected to and driven by water-wheels 
installed on the other side of the wall. The current generated 
at this power house is transmitted to Chicago where it is used to 
light the city’s streets and public buildings. 


INTERIOR OF POWER HOUSE 


Showing high tension bus-bar compartments and Cutler-Hammer 
motor driven field regulators. 


CUTLER-HAMMER CONTROL 
IN CHICAGO 


The power plant is designed for housing eight water 
wheel units of 6,000 H. P. each and three of 600 JB ls lees 
these furnishing power to drive eight generators of 
4,000 K. W. each and three, 350 K. W., exciter units. 
The current, generated at 6,600 volts, is raised to 
44,000 volts by transformers and is transmitted over 
heavy aluminum wires to Chicago where, after being 
stepped down to the proper voltage, it is used for light- 
ing the city’s streets and public buildings. 


The main transmission line is thirty miles long. The 
steel masts, of bridge construction, are sixty feet high 
and weigh 4,000 pounds. There are at present two 
3-phase circuits and one ground wire carried on the 
peaks of the poles, the wires being spaced six feet 
apart. 


The large generator units and exciter units in the 
power house are controlled by Cutler-Hammer motor- 
driven field regulators. 


In connection with the locks there are installed four 
valve motors the operation of which is governed by 
Cutler-Hammer valve controllers. There are also 
four gate motors at the locks, these being operated by 
Cutler-Hammer controllers of the reversing magnetic 
switch type. 


Another view of the motor driven field regulators 
installed in power house., 


GENERAL VIEW OF THE 24-INCH MILL 
Indiana Steel Co., Gary, Indiana. 


INTERIOR OF HOT BED AND 
STRAIGHT EDGE CONTROL HOUSE. 


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IN CHICAGO 


STEEL MILLS AND FOUNDRIES 


Twenty-six miles from Chicago on the line of the 
Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway (La Salle St. 
Depot; fare 35 cents) is the thriving town of Gary, 
Indiana. A few years ago the town site was a barren 
waste of sand, possessing, for the ordinary eye, not one 
attractive feature. But there are eyes that can look 
into the future and to such eyes this desert on the 
southern shore of Lake Michigan possessed one thing 
that outweighed all other considerations—namely, its 
location. ‘To the west of Gary lie the rich iron mines 
of the Lake Superior region; to the east the coal fields 
of Pennsylvania, and in both directions stretch the 
waters of the Great Lakes, providing cheap trans- 
portation. 


It is said that over one hundred million dollars has 
been spent by the United States Steel Corporation in 
converting eleven thousand acres of sand dunes into a 
busy town, from the midst of which rise the huge build- 
ings that house the largest steel plant in the United 
States. 


BILLET MILL AIR COMPRESSOR 
AND CONTROLLER 


Installed at Gary plant of Indiana Steel Co. 


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75 


IN CHICAGO 


The Indiana Steel Co., which is the official title of the 
Gary plant of the United States Steel Corporation, 
roll rails, billets and plates and operate 14-inch, 16-inch 
and 18-inch merchant mills. Cutler-Hammer con- 
trollers are used in all of the various mills and this type 
of control is also to be found in the power house and in 
connection with the motors operating air compressors, 
pumps, shearers, butt conveyors, hot dogs, cooling beds, 
ete. 


In this plant more than a hundred Cutler-Hammer 
disc brakes are used in connection with various motors, 
and outside of the buildings one finds Cutler-Hammer 
controllers on the coal bridge and Cutler-Hammer lift- 
ing magnets on the cranes used for handling pig iron 
and scrap. There are now in use here sixteen Cutler- 
Hammer magnets, ranging in size from the 36-inch and 
42-inch magnets used for “skull-cracker” work to full 
grown 62-inch magnets that pick up 3,000 pounds of 
pig iron, or more, at a single lift. 


Cutler-Hammer control is used by the American 
Sheet & Tin Plate Co., which is also located at Gary, 


SALVAGING KEGS OF NAILS WITH A 
CUTLER-HAMMER MAGNET. 


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IN CHICAGO 


AIR COMPRESSOR AND CONTROLLER 
Francis Nygren Foundry. 


and at Indiana Harbor hundreds of controllers of the 
same kind are installed in the plant of the Inland Steel 
Co. It was at Indiana Harbor that two 62-inch Cutler- 
Hammer lifting magnets established a new record for 
unloading pig iron. When ore boats are unloaded by 
manual labor it usually requires several days to com- 
plete the work, but with the aid of a pair of magnets 
four million pounds of pig iron were unloaded in ten and 
a half hours, the average lift per magnet being close 
upon 3,500 pounds. 


In Chicago and South Chicago Cutler-Hammer con- 
trollers, and in some cases lifting magnets as well, are’ 
used by such companies as the Iroquois Furnace Co., 
the Edgar Allen American Manganese Steel Co., The 
Railway Steel Spring Co. the Marks Mfg. Co. (at 
Evanston) Republic Iron & Steel Co., Wisconsin Steel 
Co., and others. 


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IN CHICAGO 


MISCELLANEOUS 


Michigan Boulevard below Twelfth St. is known as 
Automobile Row. Here, crowding both sides of the 
street, are the show rooms of all the leading manufac- 
turers of motor cars, garages, and establishments that 
make a specialty of automobile supplies and repairs. 
At all hours of the day the roadway is thronged with a 
continuous procession of cars, this lively stretch of 
Michigan Boulevard being, in fact, an all-the-year- 
round automobile show. 


One of the busiest shops in the Cutler-Hammer plant 
is that devoted to the manufacture of a battery switch 
for automobiles. This little switch is admirably 
adapted for the service for which it is designed and has 
been adopted as part of their standard equipment by 
many of the leading automobile manufacturers. 


The increasing use of electric vehicles has led to 
numerous installations of battery charging rheostats 
in Chicago and a goodly proportion of these bear the 
Cutler-Hammer name plate. The installation illus- 
trated on this page is that of the American Express Co. 


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CUTLER-HAMMER BATTERY 
CHARGING RHEOSTATS 


Installed in the American Express Co.’s Garage. 


AUTOMOBILE ROW 
This is the name given to Michigan Boulevard south of Twelfth St. 
Automobile show rooms, garages and dealers in automobile supplies 
line both sides of the street. 


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IN CHICAGO 


and consists of 42 charging rheostats. The Ward- 
Corby Baking Co. has an equipment consisting of 40 
rheostats, and many smaller installations are to be 
found in public and private garages. In the Ward- 
Corby bakery the dough-mixers and other motor 
driven machines are controlled by Cutler-Hammer 
motor starters and speed regulators. 


In one brewery in Chicago, that of the Peter Schoen- 
hofen Brewing Co., (526 West 18th St.) there is a total 
of 150 motors ranging from one-half to 45 H. P. These 
include the motors for a score of pumps of various kinds, 
barrels conveyors, box conveyors, malt conveyors, 
bucket conveyors for coal and ashes, and dozens of 
smaller machines such as bottle washers, bottle fillers, 
pasturizers, labeling machines, etc. But in spite of the 
great variety of machines employed only one type of 
control is used—Cutler-Hammer. Similar installations 
will be found in other large breweries in Chicago, such 
for instance as The Keeley Brewing Co., the McAvoy 
Brewing Co., the Wacker & Birk Brewing & Malting 
Co., the Conrad Seipp Brewing Co., the Fortune Bros. 
Brewing Co., and the Standard Brewery. 


Alternating current motors are used to drive the 
various machines used in the manufacture of the 
famous Spearmint Chewing Gum and at the plant of 
the Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co., (727 West Van Buren St.) 
will be found some twenty star-delta switches—Cutler- 
Hammer Bulletin 9150. There is a similar installation 
of star-delta switches at the factory of the Imperial 
Brass Co., 524 South Centre Ave. 


Cutler-Hammer fire pump starters are to be found 
in almost all modern buildings in Chicago, these being 
of a type especially designed to meet the rigid municipal 
regulations regarding fire protection. The 150 H. P., 
220 volt fire pump starter in the clothing factory of 
Hart Schaffner & Marx (36 South Franklin St.) is 
typical of this type of apparatus. Pressure is con- 
stantly maintained on the sprinkler system by the 
controller, which automatically starts the motor when- 
ever the pressure drops to 140 pounds. The degree of 
perfection attained in this installation may be judged 
by the fact that the motor operates only about once 
every ten days and in a few minutes restores full pres- 
sure to the tank, whereupon it is automatically stopped 
by the controller and remains at rest until the pressure 
again drops to 140 pounds. ' 


aR eeaey 


CHICAGO'S FAMOUS STOCK YARDS 


No book on Chicago would be complete without some reference 
to the famous Stock Yards. Here, as elsewhere throughout the 
city Cutler-Hammer controllers are in evidence. In one plant 
alone, that of Armour & Co., there are 450 motors, more than 
400 of which are equipped with Cutler-Hammer control. 


CUTLER-HAMMER 


HANDY 
GUIDE 


TO THE BUSINESS 
SECTION OF CHICAGO 


COPYRIGHT 1913 BY 
THE CUTLER-HAMMER MFG. CO. 


COMPLIMENTS 
of THE CHICAGO OFFICE of 
THE CUTLER-HAMMER MFG. CO. 
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MICHIGAN BLVD. * TELEPHONE: 
AND ADAMS ST. RANDOLPH 5022 


RAILROAD STATIONS 


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C..........Aurora, Elgin & Chicago Depot (Electric) 
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RAILROAD TICKET OFFICES: 


The cross + at Adams and La Salle Sts. covers the four blocks on 
which practically all railroad ticket offices will be found. 


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AUGIbOMUNLS Saas wakes eee eatem asi tenia Meenas T 
Blackstone acne ats hivq dresser Eon eee ar ee REE Pee WwW 
Casi esa essen oes epee asta ot erage era age ays rte A 
Goloniallips canna hiv sharon seers eieser ert oehre, serene ES ome E 
Coltamibiairon «semen pide si iattomnnis Seas atte el ae eon ore H 
Clore eae, Sastre eee et Ree reat ee Pen SANs G 
Pine Arts-Dheatersnci.f ceys-neted succes certs tty ore Ss) 
HOU yaar e eerie tie crane eke nes, « Peru anneRe as Nien et U 
Grarricls o Grader. © ciclnm De ae Te eno ei Ba aca D 
GOD GRE Aras eeeeiene ais EGE lene, crane tacg tae set neck een eee WwW 
GrandiOpera House) (Cohains)\ ma ..etee on eee eee F 
GreateNorthern, Hippodrome)... anaes eee N 
[Ulin O16' Memes rche, ssh ert cat efor ets oftye he eno oe cee O 
Miah SAG ra arenes Us peetnptt aetoctinars Hsseccecttcvoetty a ey hele tenn es aera Ay 
Littles Theaters «sainaieet xe hart ars cc ew eeeheie eea pons een iS) 
TU SAei Cs saree sere ste ee ices SONA ECO ee GEO RS OMEN eae N 
LEE Kecl Kew, Same Ac ANA ee Cee ae Me TL Nel mikey BN ics L 
IND CWC KCTS) ties ae cas hoeiche ale Cope gm nee onto. RTE ae ae K 
Ol yim preteen ve cake ccd ee anata ahs EO ee ee eae B 
Orchestra chal rg ce ake tet ee entra cence cates M 
Palace Music Hall, 127 North Clark St...between F and B 
POWETS rare Gach cite eters a nee Uae Late etic gO CLSee py ae aaa eee Cc 
PI CORE) Fe Mere cance opt ver ole yng e tear ael cen eis pe ton Pe oo P 
Stein way - lal incase ice peta oe asco sane ee. heel ere R 
Studebakersjs put. Gh Ase ewelaterclin ace dral cre eeeaeale ee eee iS) 
Whitney Opera iE ouse nis ont atk coe ee cael ena ee stiites Bret 
ZACH lel Gs Weve tere ete unees ound A daog: tae eg ae ae Vv 


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MEDINAH 
TEMPLE 


OHIO ST 

INDIANA ST. 
ILLINOIS ST. 
MICHIGAN ST. 
KINZIE ST A 
NORTH WATER ST 


RUSH ST. 


STATE ST 
CASS ST. 


RRANIKEUNES ieee 
FIR THSAV Etec ee 
ARS AICI ERS Tienes 
CUARIG Stk ee ys 
DEARBORN ST... 
TALES Ue 
WABASH AVE.......-.- 
MICHIGAN BLVD........ 


“CANAL ST. 
S 


The Chicago office of the CUTLER-HAMMER MFG. CO. isin the Peoples Gas Bldg. 
location indicated by a star ® 


INTERESTING STORES 


DEPARTMENT STORES 


Boston Store.. OTRO hE ae 
Carson Pirie Scott........ F 
Phe vB ait ice eeree co tian cae K 
Hillmann’s, 

State St.... between C and F 
MsndelpBros sees F 
Marshall Bieldtiaen acta C 
Rothschildisaes nee N 
Siegel Cooperint cesses oe N 

GOWNS AND 
WOMEN’S WEAR 
Flanders, 


Michigan Blvd. bet. jv and M 
L. S. Friedman & Co., 

Michigan Blvd. bet. sy and G 
Hellesoe-Streit Co., 

Michigan Blvd. bet. #y and M 
Jerome & Co. 

Michigan Blvd. bet. yy and M 
The Leiser Co., 

Michigan Blvd. bet. M and O 
Lincoln Bartlett Co., 

Michigan Blvd. bet. yy and M 
Chas. A. Stevens & Bros., 

State St....between C and F 
The Stratford, 

Michigan Blvd. bet. M and O 


GOWNS AND 
MILLINERY 
Griffith’s, 
Michigan Blvd...... near O 


MILLINERY 


Celine Hat Shop, 

Michigan Blvd. ‘bet. yy and M 
Maison Nouvelle, 

Michigan Blvd. bet. yy and M 
Mesirow, 

Michigan Blvd. bet. s; and M 


LADIES WAISTS 


Blackstone Shop......... P 
Lincoln Bartlett Co., 
Michigan Blvd. bet. sy; and M 


GLOVES AND CORSETS 


Palais Royal, 
Michigan Blvd. bet. yy and M 


LINENS AND 
EMBROIDERIES 


The Linen Store.......... G 


HAIRDRESSING 
By Burnham pen eee ae B 
Mme. Enwright, 
Washington St...... near C 
Mme. Graham, 
Washington St...... near C 


FLORISTS 


Alpha Floral Co., 
Wabash Ave..bet. yy and K 
Fleischman Floral Co., 


Jackson Blvd....... near M 
A. Lange, 
Madison St. 4.55...5 near F 
Henry Wittbold.......... A 
CONFECTIONERY 


Allegretti, (Two stores), 
State St... between K and L 
Michigan Blvd. bet. M and O 

Berry’s, 

(Two stores)....... E and H 
Huyler’s (Two stores)...... J 

and Washington St....near C 
Kehoe & Co., 

State St... between C and F 
Johny Kranz een ee B 
Page & Shaw, (Two stores), 

La Salle St.....bet. J and E 

Michigan Blvd. bet. yy and G 
Plows, 


Madison St......... near F 
CHILDREN’S WEAR 
A. Star Best, 

Wabash Aves ns ace. near D 
MEN’S FURNISHINGS 
he Hubs Accs ete eee L 
JEWELRY 

Chas. E. Graves, 

Wabash Ave........ near D 
Hy meni &Covaey. eee (@ 
CD Peacocke. eee K 
Spaulding & Co..:......, Oo 

FURNITURE 
John A. Colby & Sons, 
Wabash Ave........near G 


A. H. Revell & Co., 
Wabash Ave...bet. ¥ and x 
Tobey Furniture Co...... 


BOOKS 
A. C. McClurg & Co., 
Wabash Ave...bet. xy and L 
MUSICAL 
INSTRUMENTS 


Lyon & Healy, 
Wabash Ave...bet. yy and K 


GAS AND ELECTRIC 
HOUSEHOLD 
APPLIANCES 


Peoples Gas Light and 
Coke Co. akiste tee denies Ww 


PNT ERE STINGS STORES 


MEDINAH 
TEMPLE 


OHIO'ST 

INDIANA ST. Exel 

ILLINOIS ST. am 

MICHIGAN ST. PS Es 
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pear 


CASS ST. 
RUSH ST 


KINZIE ST 
NORTH WATER ST 


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The Chicago office of the CUTLER-HAMMER MFG. CO. isin the Peoples Gas Bldg.—. 
location indicated by a star® Eee ee 


BANK BUILDINGS 


American Trust & Savings Bank 


Central Trust Co. of Illinois, 
Monroe St 


Chicago Savings Bank & Trust Co................... 


Continental & Commercial National Bank, 


Harris Trust & Savings Bank, 
Monroe St 


Lhnoisirust dé) Savanest Bani eent eh eee eee 


Merchants Loan & Trust Co............. 


National City Bank 


Northern Trust Co 


Old Colony Trust & Savings Bank 


Peoples Trust & Savings Bank 


Union Bank of Chicago 


DrAuNe he beUelslaD* | N-G:S 


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location indicated by a star 


OFFICE BUILDINGS 


Adams Express, Dearborn between Adams and Monroe..... near N 
American Express, Monroe between Dearborn and State....near K 
Ashland Block. o.o.8 union anak epee eee ee eee A 
Atlas BLOG: 6.5- hse cate Soa aetes chee amen oe eek tay oh (@) 
Board tof Urades awe ee aires oe ee ee ee ee P 
Chamberioi|CommercesDldg wy eee eee ere eee E 
Commonwealth Edison, 

Adams between Clark and La Salle.................... near M 
Conway Reet She cue cht Siete eee ee aoe nee eee F 
Wine ,Ants Vine bigs nev. sere ann naan ne near V 
Bisbee rises cache sys apna ae eee ee Ol ae ee ee U 
Korte Dearborn anh. 1c Pe ee tee eee oc eee Af 
Great Northern Bldg iar -eiau araie teat Ere Lda te ee Q 
Harvester warner Gott ave coh ick tic aes LE Ue See ee YY; 
Hey worthieticr masrstps seateerdcs teers ae EEN G 
Homevinsuran core sce ena s oak oe cee ee eee M 
Insurance Exchange............... Bide Meloni locale ee tt var'e ciel in aero ne Oo 
Karpen: Bldgs simice aon irs ote ce rk a nee Z 
Bakesides‘GlarkiS tira: traccutesc mt ate tn eee amare between M and N 
LakewWViews Machigan Blvd. scm anc aaa een between yx and L 


Marquette arcaean cee cheated acts, ee Ae ee ee eee 


(This is the old Temple—Location of the new Temple 
is indicated at top of map). 


Peoples\Gas Bld oats oa wa te cies tr RAE elem oy oe ee 
Postal's] clegra ph is se aaitters ca etn. fool tee Oa ee ee T 
Pullman Bid gone oncta ash: See ee eee ce oe ee 


Reaper, Bloclestieimachataste ters, oe e Ce eG ne ee 
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TEMPLE 


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INDIANA ST. 
ILLINOIS ST. 


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MICHIGAN ST. 

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STATE ST. 
CASS ST 
RUSH ST 


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The Chicago office of the CUTLER‘HAMMER MFG. CO. isin the Peoples Gas Bldg. 
location Mmdicated by a star ® 


PUBLIC BUILDINGS, 
ETC. 


City a yo eae ates nha a eRe oer oe lcs, ae Ie ee D 
POStIOPICES oy csteebiac cates cist ocehananceyeueits te ae eRe a eee K 
Public? Libraty ssAgis os. ope ee eee eee eee E 
Antillnstituter cn wy iced oho ee a ee eee L 
Chicago Historical Society (Library and Museum)......... A 
Board xofe Drader nasi. cs 8 age ae ents e Ora eR Oe M 
Stock) xchange, (n--“Mhe? Rookery22)).. 4. soe a eee iy 
Logan Monument.............2 Sn rch diate Sui Aen pee R 
SitesolOld UF ontyD earborninwae shee are eine Perens B 
Site of “The Wigwam’’, where Abraham Lincoln was 
nominated for the Presidency in 1860................. Cc 
ChicagouAthleticyAssociation. . encase tee ae ee H 
University Club—Michigan Blvd........... between 37y and H 
Chicago Chien caodiesuckhs coe: Sabena eae pe eee P 
Illinois Athletic Club—Michigan Blvd....... between yy and H 
City Clubes elymouth Courtacc oan nee ot near N 
Plymouth Court is between State and Dearborn Sts. 
Automobile*Club—Ply mouth Court. 2% Sac ssa ae oes near N 
Flamiltomy Club 238 lanes toc mn cite tapes the, Suse holies ep art ale eee G 
Press: Gdulbis. arteries ey ere ees blo Cline © look iedes sola Nene te RN F 
Union League Club—Jackson Blvd......... between M and N 
Engimeer’s. Club——hederal)\Courtyeas ie teat serretine near N 


Federal Court is between Clark and Dearborn. 


Electrical Record, (Monadnock Block)................... N 
Electrical Review, (Transportation Bldg.).......... Mees ed Q 
Pleetrical World) (Old: Colony: Bldg))ia. ase ae see ae eee Oo 


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SPUBLIC BUILDINGS, ETC. 


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INDIANA ST. as 
ILLINOIS ST. 2) ee 
MICHIGAN ST Be se 
KINZIE ST Eee ion 


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CUTLER-HAMMER MFG. CO. is in the Peoples Gas Bldg. 


he Chicago office of the 
location indicated by a star # 


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CLUB 


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UNIVERSITY 


MONROE 
BLOG. 


ILLINOIS 
ATHLETIC 
CLUB 


LAKE 
VIEW 
BLDG 


JACKSON BLVD. 


& ADAMS ST. 


PEOPLES 
GAS 
BLDG 


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BONWHOXA AYMITIVY 


GuoOsLVYLS TALOH 
‘9018 WOINMOOD OW 
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VALOH SSAYONOD 
‘9078 ISSISHNUVa — 


BNOLSHOV1IS 1310 


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‘9078 NUVd LNVUD 


VAN BUREN ST. 


CONGRESS ST. 


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ERSITY! 


LAC UNEY ER 


| 


HARRISON ST. 


-HUBBARD PLACE 
MICHIGAN BOULEVARD from MONROE ST. to HUBBARD PL 


